An approach for estimating the health effects of changes over time in air pollution: An illustration using cardio-respiratory hospital admissions in London

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 422-427

  Tonne, Cathryn ^a,c   Beevers, Sean ^b,c   Kelly, Frank J ^b,c   Jarup, Lars ^c   Wilkinson, Paul ^a   Armstrong, Ben ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN OXIDE;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; BRONCHIOLITIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; STROKE; UNITED KINGDOM;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LONDON; MALE; MOTOR VEHICLES; NITROGEN OXIDES; PARTICULATE MATTER; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77953736635     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2009.048702     Document Type: Article

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